What might keep you from cracking its trade-paperback covers is suspicion, the suspicion that. Consider that Schechter's less-frequent forays into fiction are a quartet of novels starring real-life (but long-gone) macabrist Edgar Allan Poe, and you can imagine he's just the man for the job of compiling this new necrology. Homes! Ed Gein! Albert Fish! Gah!), not to mention co-authoring (with David Everitt) The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. He'd have to, having authored half a dozen true crime books about serial killers (H.H. Harold Schechter, curator of the wonderfully exhaustive Whole Death Catalog, knows a thing or two about life's endings – especially the more grisly ones. The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End by Harold Schechter
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